* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

While Henry in the south cooperated with the rebel Senate of Rome, Frederick I in the north blocked the passes of the Alps and cut off all communication between the Pope, then living in Verona, and his German adherents.

* March 8 – WWII: The U. S. Senate passes the Lend-Lease Act ( 60 – 31 ).

* The United States Senate passes Resolution 71, urging U. S. President Bill Clinton to " take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

** The Blaine Act passes the United States Senate, submitting the proposed 21st Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification.

* The Senate passes a senatus consultum restricting the reduced Vigintisexviri to the Ordo Equester.

* In Rome, the selection of civil servants passes from the people to the Emperor and the Senate.

Any amendment that passes both Houses, must be repassed by majority votes, after a newly elected legislature is seated ; again, first in the Senate, then in the House.

The Senate passes a decree that Pompey and Caesar should each contribute one legion to the Parthian war in the East.

Among the powers granted to the Governor-General is the power to dissolve both houses of Parliament under Section 57 of the Constitution, in the event that the House of Representatives twice passes a bill at least three months apart and the Senate will not agree to pass the bill.

* The Senate passes the Lex Caecilia Didia which bans omnibus bills.

He passes measures taxing luxury and strictly revises the list of persons eligible for the Senate.

* The Roman Senate passes the motion senatus consultum ultimum, which the consul Lucius Opimius interprets as giving him unlimited power to preserve the Republic.

* The U. S. Senate passes the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill 60 – 40.

If the House twice passes the same bill, and the Senate twice fails to pass that bill ( either through rejection or through the passage of unacceptable amendments ), then the Governor-General may dissolve both Houses of Parliament simultaneously and call an election for the entire Parliament.

Vote 8 — 1 February 1996 Senate passes the final revision of S. 652, sent to President Clinton who signed it into law on 8 February 1996.

If the House passes a majority vote to impeach the president, the Senate then conducts the trial to remove them from office.

Any amendment that passes both Houses must be repassed by majority votes, after a newly elected legislature is seated ; again, first in the Senate, then in the House.

* 13 – The Australian Senate passes legislation by a 38 – 7 vote that defines marriage as a union of one man and one woman, granting prime minister John Howard a victory in is campaign to outlaw same-sex marriage in the country.

* 10 – The United States Senate passes the Defense of Marriage Act ( 85 – 14 ) and rejects prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual orientation in the private sector ( 49 – 50 ).

The amendment usually passes the House of Representatives, but has always been defeated in the Senate.

December 5, 1991-Bill C-17 passes Senate.

* May 28-The Dáil passes a motion abolishing the Senate of the Irish Free State.

The Presidency thus passes to the black President pro tem of the Senate.

A similar resolution passed in the Senate by a vote of 29-5.

On 22 November 2007, the Nigerian Senate passed a resolution declaring that the withdrawal from the Bakassi Peninsula was illegal.

The Senate of Bolivia passed a resolution, stating that Humanae Vitae can be discussed in its implications on individual consciences, but, it is of greatest significance, because the papal document defends the rights of developing nations to determine their own population policies.

Upon his death, the US Senate passed a resolution to honor Smalley, crediting him as the “ Father of Nanotechnology .”

It was suggested that the two houses first adopt a resolution indicating that they deem an amendment necessary, but this procedure has never been used — the U. S. Senate and the U. S. House of Representatives instead directly proceed to the adoption of a joint resolution, thereby proposing the amendment with the implication that both bodies " deem " the amendment to be " necessary.

Article One provides, " every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary ( except on a question of adjournment ) shall be presented to the President of the United States ; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives.

" As previously stated, the Constitution requires the concurrence of at least two-thirds of the members present of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to a joint resolution which proposes a constitutional amendment.

On August 1, 1917, the Senate passed a resolution containing the language of the amendment to be presented to the states for ratification.

It was officially proposed by the Congress to the states when the Senate passed the resolution, by a vote of 47 to 8, the next day, December 18.

In 1960, after Eisenhower had made three such appointments, the Senate passed a " sense of the Senate " resolution that recess appointments to the Court should only be made in " unusual circumstances.

* In 1990, a United States Senate joint resolution to change the name of Washington Dulles to Washington Eisenhower was proposed by Senator Dole, but never passed.

As Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on International Finance, Monroney proposed a resolution recommending a study of the potential establishment of an International Development Association to be affiliated with the IBRD.

On October 17, the Senate passed a unanimous resolution demanding Palmer explain what actions he had or had not taken against radical aliens and why.

Unlike John C. Calhoun, who resigned to take a seat in the Senate, Agnew resigned and then pleaded no contest to criminal charges of tax evasion, part of a negotiated resolution to a scheme wherein he was accused of accepting more than $ 100, 000 in bribes during his tenure as governor of Maryland.

On August 2, 2007, the U. S. Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Senator Jim Bunning ( R-KY ) officially declaring September 2007 " National Bourbon Heritage Month ", marking the history of bourbon whiskey.

The Senate resolution creating the position stated that any former president or former vice president serving in the Senate would be entitled to this position, though none has served since Humphrey's death in 1978, and former vice president Walter Mondale, who sought a seat in Minnesota in 2002, is the only one to have tried.

When the Senate could not muster a two-thirds vote to pass a treaty of annexation with Texas, Calhoun devised a joint resolution of the Houses of Congress, requiring only a simple majority ; Texas joined the Union.

Coolbrith was later acknowledged as the " Loved Laurel-Crowned Poet of California " by a 1919 state Senate resolution, and she retained the title until her death in 1928.

In response, both the Senate and House passed a joint resolution not to allow any Senator or Representative seat admittance until Congress decided when Reconstruction was finished.

After an earlier attempt to acquire Texas by treaty had failed to receive the necessary two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States annexed the Republic of Texas by a joint resolution of Congress that required simply a majority vote in each house of Congress.